Customer Review: This book is an instant classic. The material covered is similar to what you would see in a basic Discrete Mathematics course, with some electrical engineering and computer org & design thrown in. However, unlike those courses (which can be dry and boring at times) the author makes the material... more info
Customer Review: Very nice explanation, with lots of examples. This is a marked difference from other books that are written for mathematicians. The book also contains implementation details (lots of circuit diagrams), hence is suited for those with a background in CS/EE. Will be good if the book came with lab... more info
Customer Review: After reading some of chapters, it seems to me that it is a bit difficult to understand even some easy concepts. The book is rich, but again it lacks of good explanations at some points.
Customer Review: I am amazed by the clarity and "simplicity" of the text in the book.
Calendars are not simple at all, but the approach taken by the authors makes the algorithms involved very accessible. I also appreciated the decision to focus on clarity rather then performance.
Customer Review: I highly, highly recommend this book to anyone who either is taking a course in cryptography in school or wants to learn about it. It is a very well written book which clarifies a lot of basic concepts. I bought it as it was recommended by my professor in school and managed to get an A in the... more info
Customer Review: This is one of those books that only gets a new edition when the author has something genuinely new to say, and this third edition of Sayood's excellent introduction to data compression is no exception. This particular edition is different from the second mainly in that there is a new chapter on... more info
Customer Review: Reader would learn a lot about Unicode and many unique problem of different scripts. For example, it is not one glyph for traditional "character" nor one code for one traditional "character". I also recommend readers also read source code of pango library and manual of freetype library.
Customer Review: This book is written for mathematicians. Every two or so paragraphs, the authors expect the reader to carry out some proof. In other words, the authors provide the guidelines, and expect you to do all the legwork.
Customer Review: Two problems with this book: 1. The language -- Ruby -- is a strange choice. I've been writing and using code generators, in some form, for decades; I've used mmm... let's see: dBase, C, C++, awk, and perl, alone and/or in combination. These, I believe, are the more-or-less mainstream languages... more info